ANÁLISIS Y CLASIFICACIÓN DE LAS ESTRUCTURAS COMPARATIVAS DE DESIGUALDAD EN ESPAÑOL.

This paper offers an in-depth morphosyntactic and semantic characterization of Spanish inequality comparatives by taking into account mainly synchronic and some diachronic data. This comprehensive study shows the need to adjust previous analyses of Spanish inequality comparatives. The architecture of these comparatives is shown to be determined by: (i) the size of the comparison standard (phrasal or clausal) and (ii) the type of link between the standard and the comparative cluster (coordination or dependency). Finally, the syntactic and semantic selection restrictions of the Spanish standard markers are defined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]